God Is Limitless By Pastor Paul Black

This verse in Isaiah 55:6-11 always amazes me.

Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

What Isaiah is saying is that God and so far above human reasoning in human understanding that it would be impossible for us to comprehend him with our humaneness. Thus, to understand him. we must always come into the place of our spirit and engage with Holy Spirit who lives on the inside of all of those who had been born again.

From the place of the spirit, we come to understand the vastness of God's wisdom and possibilities even as Enoch did. As Gabriel told Mary, “with God all things are possible”! Even though things may seem impossible.

Why then in so many of our worship settings, do we try to humanize God? Why do we always try to bring him down to our level of understanding and humaneness when he is so far above all that we could possibly think in our human mind.

The invitation of Isaiah is to seek him well he may be found and call upon him while he is near. In other words, God himself invites us to participate in his limitlessness. Can you comprehend the possibilities of that? God himself who is full of mysteries invites us to participate in things that are far beyond human knowledge in understanding. The doctor may say that the prognosis is not good. God says that the impossible is always possible with him. I think the only reason that some people pass on is because God wants them in his limitless presence to experience the all possible mysteries of himself.

Secondly, God does not need you and I necessarily to fulfill his word. His word as the power within itself to complete all that it is sent out to accomplish. It is as faithful as the rain and the snow which water the earth and bring forth its fruit. According to the New Testament in the parable of the sower, all God needs our fertile hearts fertilized with faith that God will accomplish all that he said he would accomplish. All He needs ia a “Yes”!

I know many are concerned with the midterm elections coming up next week. I was listening to a prophecy from Kim Clement concerning our nation and our current president. When you realize the words given to Kim concerning our nation, you realize that not everything that God has spoken over our nation has been fulfilled yet. No matter what happens next week we must believe it is all part of God's plan to bring forth his restoration to our nation. There are just too many people standing in the gap with faith believing God will do what he said he will do.

When you realize the finality of God's spoken word, it gives us great hope. Not in the accomplishments of man but in the faithfulness of God in his word. So be encouraged my brother and sister. God has not left us forsaken. His word is accomplishing what he promised our forefathers and those who in prophesied over our nation years ago.

This fact should fill us with great hope because our hope is in the Lord. God promised Moses in Numbers 23:19

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

God will fulfill what he said he would do. What guarantees it is that he's above being human. He is supernaturally God who sits upon the throne and when he speaks his word, It is final! No discussion, no debate. It is done!

Let these truths encourage you today both in your personal life and also the life of your family and of our nation. God will do what he said he will do! God bless!

A Shift is Taking Place By Marlene Le Riche (HTL Ministries)

We received this word from Prophet Marlene Le Riche of “Heal the Land Ministires” in South Africa this past week. Was feeling led to release it to you to encourage you in this season “changing winds”. God is in the midst of the wind. As I read this word, it reminded me of ISAIAH 43:18-19 ESV).

“Remember not the former things,
    nor consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I am doing a new thing;
    now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
    and rivers in the desert.

”A Shift Is Taking Place”

It’s time to birth what we  have been carrying.  carrying even too long.  if you not prepared to birth a miscarriage will take place.  now is the time. it has never been  times and seasons as you have predicted says the Lord but according to my calendar my times and seasons as I please says the Lord

I was slain as a lamb but  now I’m the Lion. the lion of Judah is coming forth and roaring.  It’s a time of action stepping up and coming forth

 I heard tiny bells ringing.  the Lord is amongst us. His presence will increase as we are willing to go into action using our gifting moving in our order according to his call as the Spirit moves and directs.

 As the Lord showed me. we are no longer butterflies. but eagles to soar higher and higher to his delight.

For too long we have stayed on one place.  perched on one branch but the Lord states “I am the tree and have many branches and as the wind, my Spirit comes and sways the branches so we have to adapt to His calling upon our lives” to bend to crawl to speak to sway in His will according to His call for us

Be not perturbed,  perplexed as it is not as usual but a new era, a new dispensation all according to my will says the Lord”

Amen!! Thank You Marlene,

THANK You so much.. May the Lord richly bless you!!

The Blood of Jesus. By Pastor Paul Black

The power of Christianity is the blood of Jesus. Death passed on all of creation because of the transgression of Adam & Eve, (1 Corinthians 15:22), God demanded death as a payment.

 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

 As the above verse states, Jesus became the sacrifice for all mankind. He lived a perfect life void of any sin so He could become that perfect sacrifice. 2 Corinthians 5:21

 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

 At one moment on the cross, Jesus cried out  "Eli, eli, lama sabachthani" (or Eloi, eloi. Is an Aramaic phrase which is translated…My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Jesus experienced the eternal separation from God of every man created in history. That’s why He could cry out in his final declaration from the cross “It is Finished”. In Aramaic, it is commonly rendered as Meshullam (or Mashálam) which means “finished”, “paid” or “completed’. It is often used in the “Peshita” (The Aramaic Bible) as a mathematical or financial term meaning “Paid in Full”!

 Jesus’ blood did what the blood of sheep and bulls could not do. The blood of sheep and bulls only covered sin. Jesus blood completely removes sin. (Hebrews 9:10-13

 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Why is Jesus’ blood important to the believer.

What do we receive because of His sacrifice?

Atonement and Forgiveness: The Bible states that "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" (Hebrews 9:22). Jesus' blood  paid the penalty for human sin, known as substitutionary atonement. No other religion has this truth.

 Redemption: His blood is described as the "ransom" paid to purchase humanity's freedom from the bondage of sin (1 Peter 1:18–19).

Direct Access to God: Unlike Old Testament rituals that required a high priest, believers are said to have "boldness to enter the Holiest" by the blood of Jesus, allowing for a personal relationship with God (Hebrews 10:19).

Cleansing and Sanctification: It is a spiritual cleansing agent that purifies the conscience from guilt (1 John 1:7-9)

From a practical purpose, the Blood of Jesus has tremendous power in prayer and spiritual warfare. "Pleading the blood of Jesus" is a form of prayer used to invoke the power of Jesus' sacrifice for protection, deliverance, and spiritual victory. While the exact phrase is not found in the Bible, practitioners ground the concept in the redemptive and protective nature of blood sacrifices seen throughout Scripture. ‘

In this context, "pleading" is often viewed as a legal term rather than a plea for mercy. It is seen as presenting the "evidence" of Jesus' finished work on the cross to a spiritual court, asserting that the devil has no legal claim over a believer's life. 

Believers typically plead the blood for:

Protection: Drawing a "blood line" that evil cannot cross, similar to the Passover lamb's blood in Exodus.

Spiritual Warfare: Rebuking demonic attacks, fear, or persistent problems.

Healing & Provision: Claiming health and spiritual breakthroughs as part of the inheritance purchased by Jesus.

Cleansing: Purifying the mind and conscience from guilt or sin. 

 The blood of Jesus is the foundation of the faith, representing the supreme sacrifice that reconciles humanity with God. It’s importance stems from the fact the “the life of the flesh is in the blood (Lev 17:11) and the requirement that “without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins” (Hebrews 9:22

 Jesus said that if we wanted to follow Him, we had to drink His blood and eat His body (John 6:53-58)

 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”

 During the Last Supper, Jesus took the wine and said “this is my blood”, instructing followers to drink it in remembrance of him. Then He said, “this is my body, given for you”.  There are some who believe the wine and blood literally become the blood and flesh of the Lord. This doctrine is called “transubstantiation”.  Whether it actually does or not is immaterial to me. If Jesus said it, then it is so whether is transforms into His actual blood or body or not.

This shedding of His blood was the foundation of a new covenant which than ratified all the covenants of the Old Testament.

The “Shroud of Turin” shows a crucified man from the 1st century. It shows that this individual received 702 lashes during his flogging. Scientists believe that Jesus lost 1/3 of His blood volume during this flogging. Here’s what the prophet Isaiah had to say 600 years before Christ. (Isaiah 53:3-5)

“He was despised and rejected by men,
    a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces[f]
    he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he has borne our griefs
    and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
    smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
    and with his wounds (some versions use the word ‘stripes’) we are healed”.

Did you know that Jews are forbidden to read this chapter of Isaiah? Why? They would recognize Jesus as the fulfillment of these verses.

 Thank you Jesus for dying for me! Thank you for shedding Your blood for me to completely remove the stain of sin. Thank you for giving me Your righteousness so that I can boldly enter the throne room through your grace according to the writer of Hebrews. Thank you that your stripes or wounds were placed on your body for the healing of all my diseases. I will pick up my cross daily to destroy my flesh and follow You. Like the example of the Apostle Paul’s handkerchief in Acts 19,I plead the blood of Jesus to all who read this blog to be set free from the bondage of religion, the oppression of captivity to sin and the healing of all  diseases in Jesus name”.